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Phil McColeman

Member of Parliament for Brantford—Brant, Ontario, from 2008 to 2021. Conservative. Cast 2,324 ballots in recorded divisions and voted against the party line 3 times.

ballots cast2,3241,064 yea · 1,260 nay against party line30.13% of cast hansard statements3,7832008–2021 elections54 won

Service

RidingProvincePartyFromTo
BrantONConservative2008-11-182015-10-19
Brantford—BrantONConservative2015-10-192021-09-20

Ballots cast by year

One bar per calendar year: recorded divisions where Phil McColeman voted yea or nay. Absences and pairings are not ballots and are not drawn. Votes against the party line, if any, are the lit slice at the base of the bar.

430020082021
The axis starts at zero. The division record runs 2006-05-08 to 2026-06-18.

Against the party line

Every recorded division where Phil McColeman voted against the majority of their own caucus — all 3 of them, in full, because a count without its list is a claim and not a record.

DateVotePartyDivision
2009-12-02YeaConservativeC-393 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology.
2011-03-09YeaConservativeC-501 · That Bill C-501, An Act to amend the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and other Acts (pension protection), as amended, be concurred in at report stage.
2021-02-17NayConservativeC-218 · 2nd reading of Bill C-218, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (sports betting)

Elections

DateRidingPartyVotesShareResult
2006-01-23Brant (ON)Conservative21,49535.97%not elected
2008-10-14Brant (ON)Conservative22,73641.95%elected
2011-05-02Brant (ON)Conservative28,04548.90%elected
2015-10-19Brantford—Brant (ON)Conservative25,87440.90%elected
2019-10-21Brantford—Brant (ON)Conservative26,84940.30%elected

Method

A ballot is a yea or a nay. Absences (855 here) and pairings (1) are recorded but are not votes, and every rate on this page divides by ballots cast, never by divisions held.

A dissent is a caucus dissent. Ballots cast while sitting as an Independent are never counted as dissents — an Independent has no party line to defy. The source dump flags 61 such ballots anyway; this site excludes them, and documents the artefact in correction 0001.

The record has edges. Memberships and Hansard begin 1994-01-17; recorded divisions begin 2006-05-08. A member who served before that date shows zero ballots because the record starts there, not because they never voted.

Alphabetical, not ranked. The directory sorts by family name. This site does not rank, score, or grade people.